Yellow Journalism: The Architecture of Modern Manipulation

They'll tell you Hearst was a newspaperman — a rich boy who sold headlines. That's the myth. And the myth is doing exactly what it was built to do, which is keep you from looking any closer. Because the truth is faster than that. And darker. And a lot more precise. In 1898, two men in New York — William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer — were fighting a circulation war that had crossed the line…